# Amputations at Easy Heat Wood Pellets, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2019076986` · 7/10/2019 · LEVITTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Easy Heat Wood Pellets, LLC.
- **Location:** 6400 Bristol Pike, LEVITTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 19057
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reinstalling the mast chain on a forklift after it had jammed. When the chain went back on, the mast dropped and pulled his hand around the sprocket causing the amputation of three fingertips on the right hand.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*